1. My HDFS sink creates a bz2 file. File is perfectly fine I can decompress it andread it. It has 0.2 million records.2. Now I give that file to map-reduce job (hadoop 1.0.3) and surprisingly it onlyreads first 100 records.3. I then decompress the same file on local file system and use bzip2 command oflinux to again compress it and copy to HDFS.4. Now I run the map -reduce job and this time it correctly processes all the records.

I think flume agent writes compressed data to HDFS file in batches. And somehowbzip2 codec used by hadoop uses only first part of it.

This way bz2 files generated by Flume, if used directly, can't be processed by Map reduce job.Is there any solution to it?

On 10/26/2012 04:30 PM, Jagadish Bihani wrote:> Hi>> I have a very peculiar scenario.>> 1. My HDFS sink creates a bz2 file. File is perfectly fine I can > decompress it and> read it. It has 0.2 million records.> 2. Now I give that file to map-reduce job (hadoop 1.0.3) and > surprisingly it only> reads first 100 records.> 3. I then decompress the same file on local file system and use bzip2 > command of> linux to again compress it and copy to HDFS.> 4. Now I run the map -reduce job and this time it correctly processes > all the records.>> I think flume agent writes compressed data to HDFS file in batches. > And somehow> bzip2 codec used by hadoop uses only first part of it.>> This way bz2 files generated by Flume, if used directly, can't be > processed by Map reduce job.> Is there any solution to it?>> Any inputs about other compression formats?>> P.S.> Versions:>> Flume 1.2.0 (Raw version; downloaded from > http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/flume/1.2.0/apache-flume-1.2.0-bin.tar.gz)> Hadoop 1.0.3>> Regards,> Jagadish

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Jagadish Bihani<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:>> Same thing happens even for gzip.>> Regards,> Jagadish>>> On 10/26/2012 04:30 PM, Jagadish Bihani wrote:>>>> Hi>>>> I have a very peculiar scenario.>>>> 1. My HDFS sink creates a bz2 file. File is perfectly fine I can>> decompress it and>> read it. It has 0.2 million records.>> 2. Now I give that file to map-reduce job (hadoop 1.0.3) and surprisingly>> it only>> reads first 100 records.>> 3. I then decompress the same file on local file system and use bzip2>> command of>> linux to again compress it and copy to HDFS.>> 4. Now I run the map -reduce job and this time it correctly processes all>> the records.>>>> I think flume agent writes compressed data to HDFS file in batches. And>> somehow>> bzip2 codec used by hadoop uses only first part of it.>>>> This way bz2 files generated by Flume, if used directly, can't be>> processed by Map reduce job.>> Is there any solution to it?>>>> Any inputs about other compression formats?>>>> P.S.>> Versions:>>>> Flume 1.2.0 (Raw version; downloaded from>> http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/flume/1.2.0/apache-flume-1.2.0-bin.tar.gz)>> Hadoop 1.0.3>>>> Regards,>> Jagadish>>

Few updates on that:-- It looks like some header issue.-- When I copyToLocal the file and then again copy it back to HDFS,map reduce job processes the the file correctly then.Is it something related to https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6852?

Regards,JagadishOn 10/30/2012 09:15 PM, Brock Noland wrote:> What kind of files is your sink writing out? Text, Sequence, etc?>> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Jagadish Bihani> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:>> Same thing happens even for gzip.>>>> Regards,>> Jagadish>>>>>> On 10/26/2012 04:30 PM, Jagadish Bihani wrote:>>> Hi>>>>>> I have a very peculiar scenario.>>>>>> 1. My HDFS sink creates a bz2 file. File is perfectly fine I can>>> decompress it and>>> read it. It has 0.2 million records.>>> 2. Now I give that file to map-reduce job (hadoop 1.0.3) and surprisingly>>> it only>>> reads first 100 records.>>> 3. I then decompress the same file on local file system and use bzip2>>> command of>>> linux to again compress it and copy to HDFS.>>> 4. Now I run the map -reduce job and this time it correctly processes all>>> the records.>>>>>> I think flume agent writes compressed data to HDFS file in batches. And>>> somehow>>> bzip2 codec used by hadoop uses only first part of it.>>>>>> This way bz2 files generated by Flume, if used directly, can't be>>> processed by Map reduce job.>>> Is there any solution to it?>>>>>> Any inputs about other compression formats?>>>>>> P.S.>>> Versions:>>>>>> Flume 1.2.0 (Raw version; downloaded from>>> http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/flume/1.2.0/apache-flume-1.2.0-bin.tar.gz)>>> Hadoop 1.0.3>>>>>> Regards,>>> Jagadish>>>>

Any inputs on this?It looks like a basic thing which, I guess, must have been handled in flumeOn 10/30/2012 10:31 PM, Jagadish Bihani wrote:> Text.>> Few updates on that:> -- It looks like some header issue.> -- When I copyToLocal the file and then again copy it back to HDFS,> map reduce job processes the the file correctly then.> Is it something related to > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6852?>> Regards,> Jagadish>>> On 10/30/2012 09:15 PM, Brock Noland wrote:>> What kind of files is your sink writing out? Text, Sequence, etc?>>>> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Jagadish Bihani>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:>>> Same thing happens even for gzip.>>>>>> Regards,>>> Jagadish>>>>>>>>> On 10/26/2012 04:30 PM, Jagadish Bihani wrote:>>>> Hi>>>>>>>> I have a very peculiar scenario.>>>>>>>> 1. My HDFS sink creates a bz2 file. File is perfectly fine I can>>>> decompress it and>>>> read it. It has 0.2 million records.>>>> 2. Now I give that file to map-reduce job (hadoop 1.0.3) and surprisingly>>>> it only>>>> reads first 100 records.>>>> 3. I then decompress the same file on local file system and use bzip2>>>> command of>>>> linux to again compress it and copy to HDFS.>>>> 4. Now I run the map -reduce job and this time it correctly processes all>>>> the records.>>>>>>>> I think flume agent writes compressed data to HDFS file in batches. And>>>> somehow>>>> bzip2 codec used by hadoop uses only first part of it.>>>>>>>> This way bz2 files generated by Flume, if used directly, can't be>>>> processed by Map reduce job.>>>> Is there any solution to it?>>>>>>>> Any inputs about other compression formats?>>>>>>>> P.S.>>>> Versions:>>>>>>>> Flume 1.2.0 (Raw version; downloaded from>>>> http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/flume/1.2.0/apache-flume-1.2.0-bin.tar.gz)>>>> Hadoop 1.0.3>>>>>>>> Regards,>>>> Jagadish>>>

Hi Jagadish,My understanding based on investigating this issue over the last couple ofdays is that MapReduce jobs will only read the first section of aconcatenated bzip2 file. I believe you are correct thathttps://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6852 is the only way to solvethis issue, and that would only be for the Hadoop 2.0 line, I believe. Ithink that the Hadoop 1.x line would need to backport other patches fromthe 0.22 line, including https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6835,which may also be needed (my understanding is that that patch is alreadyincluded in the 2.x line).

I am aware of folks interested in trying to fix HADOOP-6852, however I haveno ETA to give.

>From Flume's perspective, I know of no other way of ensuring durabilityusing the hadoop-common APIs except for calling finalize in order to flumethe compression buffer at each transaction/batch boundary, in order to callhflush()/hsync() with the fully written data. This results in concatenatedcompressed plain text files in the case of CompressedStream.

Current workarounds include not using compression, reprocessing thecompressed file as you mention, using a SequenceFile as a container, orusing an Avro file as a container. The latter two are splittable andproperly handle several compression codecs, including Snappy, which is agreat way to go if you can do it.

> Hi>> Any inputs on this?> It looks like a basic thing which, I guess, must have been handled in flume>>>> On 10/30/2012 10:31 PM, Jagadish Bihani wrote:>> Text.>> Few updates on that:> -- It looks like some header issue.> -- When I copyToLocal the file and then again copy it back to HDFS,> map reduce job processes the the file correctly then.> Is it something related to> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6852?>> Regards,> Jagadish>>> On 10/30/2012 09:15 PM, Brock Noland wrote:>> What kind of files is your sink writing out? Text, Sequence, etc?>> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Jagadish Bihani<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:>> Same thing happens even for gzip.>> Regards,> Jagadish>>> On 10/26/2012 04:30 PM, Jagadish Bihani wrote:>> Hi>> I have a very peculiar scenario.>> 1. My HDFS sink creates a bz2 file. File is perfectly fine I can> decompress it and> read it. It has 0.2 million records.> 2. Now I give that file to map-reduce job (hadoop 1.0.3) and surprisingly> it only> reads first 100 records.> 3. I then decompress the same file on local file system and use bzip2> command of> linux to again compress it and copy to HDFS.> 4. Now I run the map -reduce job and this time it correctly processes all> the records.>> I think flume agent writes compressed data to HDFS file in batches. And> somehow> bzip2 codec used by hadoop uses only first part of it.>> This way bz2 files generated by Flume, if used directly, can't be> processed by Map reduce job.> Is there any solution to it?>> Any inputs about other compression formats?>> P.S.> Versions:>> Flume 1.2.0 (Raw version; downloaded fromhttp://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/flume/1.2.0/apache-flume-1.2.0-bin.tar.gz)> Hadoop 1.0.3>> Regards,> Jagadish>>>>

Thanks for the valuable inputs. That was driving us crazy.But I had tested that this issue doesn't happen with compression format lzo/lzop (tested on hadoop 1.0.3).

Regards,Jagadish

On 11/02/2012 03:16 PM, Mike Percy wrote:> Hi Jagadish,> My understanding based on investigating this issue over the last > couple of days is that MapReduce jobs will only read the first section > of a concatenaed bzip2 file. I believe you are correct that > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6852 is the only way to > solve this issue, and that would only be for the Hadoop 2.0 line, I > believe. I think that the Hadoop 1.x line would need to backport other > patches from the 0.22 line, including > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6835, which may also be > needed (my understanding is that that patch is already included in the > 2.x line).>> I am aware of folks interested in trying to fix HADOOP-6852, however I > have no ETA to give.>> From Flume's perspective, I know of no other way of ensuring > durability using the hadoop-common APIs except for calling finalize in > order to flume the compression buffer at each transaction/batch > boundary, in order to call hflush()/hsync() with the fully written > data. This results in concatenated compressed plain text files in the > case of CompressedStream.>> Current workarounds include not using compression, reprocessing the > compressed file as you mention, using a SequenceFile as a container, > or using an Avro file as a container. The latter two are splittable > and properly handle several compression codecs, including Snappy, > which is a great way to go if you can do it.>> Regards,> Mike>> On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 12:50 AM, Jagadish Bihani > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > wrote:>> Hi>> Any inputs on this?> It looks like a basic thing which, I guess, must have been handled> in flume>>>> On 10/30/2012 10:31 PM, Jagadish Bihani wrote:>> Text.>>>> Few updates on that:>> -- It looks like some header issue.>> -- When I copyToLocal the file and then again copy it back to HDFS,>> map reduce job processes the the file correctly then.>> Is it something related to>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6852?>>>> Regards,>> Jagadish>>>>>> On 10/30/2012 09:15 PM, Brock Noland wrote:>>> What kind of files is your sink writing out? Text, Sequence, etc?>>>>>> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Jagadish Bihani>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:>>>> Same thing happens even for gzip.>>>>>>>> Regards,>>>> Jagadish>>>>>>>>>>>> On 10/26/2012 04:30 PM, Jagadish Bihani wrote:>>>>> Hi>>>>>>>>>> I have a very peculiar scenario.>>>>>>>>>> 1. My HDFS sink creates a bz2 file. File is perfectly fine I can>>>>> decompress it and>>>>> read it. It has 0.2 million records.>>>>> 2. Now I give that file to map-reduce job (hadoop 1.0.3) and surprisingly>>>>> it only>>>>> reads first 100 records.>>>>> 3. I then decompress the same file on local file system and use bzip2>>>>> command of>>>>> linux to again compress it and copy to HDFS.>>>>> 4. Now I run the map -reduce job and this time it correctly processes all>>>>> the records.>>>>>>>>>> I think flume agent writes compressed data to HDFS file in batches. And>>>>> somehow>>>>> bzip2 codec used by hadoop uses only first part of it.>>>>>>>>>> This way bz2 files generated by Flume, if used directly, can't be>>>>> processed by Map reduce job.>>>>> Is there any solution to it?>>>>>>>>>> Any inputs about other compression formats?>>>>>>>>>> P.S.>>>>> Versions:>>>>>>>>>> Flume 1.2.0 (Raw version; downloaded from>>>>> http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/flume/1.2.0/apache-flume-1.2.0-bin.tar.gz)

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